Before performing, singer Benjamin Glaze told the judges that he enjoys his job at an electronics store because he gets to "meet cute girls." Luke Bryan asked him, "Have you kissed a girl and liked it?," referring to Katy Perry's breakout hit. Glaze told them that he had never been in a relationship, and said "I can't kiss a girl without being in a relationship."

Perry called him over to the table so he could give her a peck on the cheek. But then she called for a second attempt, and this time, she went for his lips.

Then Glaze stumbled backwards and then said, "Katy! You didn't! ...Well, that's a first."

In a later interview with The New York Times, the19-year-old said the kiss made him "a tad bit uncomfortable."

"Would I have done it if she said, 'Would you kiss me?' No, I would have said no," he said. "I know a lot of guys would be like, 'Heck yeah!' But for me, I was raised in a conservative family and I was uncomfortable immediately. I wanted my first kiss to be special."

That said, he later took to Instagram to clarify his comments, as he felt he had been misrepresented.

"I am not complaining about the kiss, I am very honored and thankful to have been a part of American Idol," he wrote. " I do not think I was sexually harassed by Katy Perry and I am thankful for the judges' comments and critiques. I was uncomfortable in a sense of how I have never been kissed before and was not expecting it. My main goal is to reach people through the universal love of music and not cause strife or anger against anyone or about any situation!"

Still, many people on Twitter were upset about the kiss, saying that Perry shouldn't have done it, and questioning what the public reaction would be if the genders were reversed.

Katy, what you did to #Benjaminglaze is not ok. Imagine if the gender roles were reversed and an older man kissed a girl on tv who said she had never been kissed. Women don’t get a free pass in the #metoo movement. #AmericanIdol should kick you off.

And after all that, Glaze didn't even make the cut. The judges told him his performance of Nick Jonas' "Levels" was a little too rushed, with Perry herself saying "There's a lot of people out-singing you right now, and I don't think it'd be fair to put you in that kind of competition."

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